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Buying a Home with a Resale Value: Location, Location, Location *

Buying a Home with a Resale Value: Location, Location, Location * We develop a dynamic multiregion model, where a household's choice of housing location depends on its current wealth and its current type, and involves both consumption and investment considerations. The relative strength of the consumption motive and the investment motive determines the equilibrium pattern of residential sorting. A strong investment (consumption) motive implies sorting according to household type (wealth). The model predicts that large house‐price fluctuations are associated with a low degree of sorting by type. This prediction is consistent with evidence from US metropolitan areas when income, education, and age are used as proxies for household type. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Scandinavian Journal of Economics Wiley

Buying a Home with a Resale Value: Location, Location, Location *

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Wiley
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© 2013 the editors of The Scandinavian Journal of Economics .
ISSN
0347-0520
eISSN
1467-9442
DOI
10.1111/sjoe.12033
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Abstract

We develop a dynamic multiregion model, where a household's choice of housing location depends on its current wealth and its current type, and involves both consumption and investment considerations. The relative strength of the consumption motive and the investment motive determines the equilibrium pattern of residential sorting. A strong investment (consumption) motive implies sorting according to household type (wealth). The model predicts that large house‐price fluctuations are associated with a low degree of sorting by type. This prediction is consistent with evidence from US metropolitan areas when income, education, and age are used as proxies for household type.

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The Scandinavian Journal of EconomicsWiley

Published: Oct 1, 2013

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